The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-21
RAILROAD GATES
AND OTHER IMPORTANT MATTERS

AMI OIAEh lNlfOhIANV MATTEHS
Considered by Council at a Meeting Hold
Last Night-After tho Sunday Sellers.
Financial Reports From a Number
OF Miscellaneous Topics.
An adjourned meeting Of Council was
held at tho Public Building Last even.
ing for the purpose Of considering matters
that should have boon attended to last
Tuesday night, the time for holding a
regular aemi.monthly meeting, but at
which time there was no quorum in the
Second Branch, and accordingly no busl.
ness WAS transacted then. It looked for
time last night as though there would
be second failure Tor the snme reason
the want Of quorum In the Second
Branch, but shortly alter s o'clock tho
members OF both branches appeared in
force, and getting down to business in
earnest soon had both tables cleared Of
all business. I'd
The Second Branch was called TO order
shortly, after s o'clock. The precidlag
officer being absent, on motion Of Mr..
HHrrell, Colonel Caldwell WAS called 10
tho chair. On the. call OF the roll, the
following members failed 10 answer their
names: Messrs. Auber, Healy, Kettler,
Kraft, Miller, Pracht, Warner, Whyts,
Young and GllleIand. A motion was
made to dispense with tho reading OF the
minutes and this provoked come dis.
cussion, two or TIRES memberu Directing
to the practice Of! piling up macs Of pro-
Ceedings to be read at one time. The
motion finally prevailed, and the pro-
ceednga OF three meetings are now wait.
ing to be approved. g-Aas
FINANCIAL MATTERS.
| Clerk Bowers presented his regular
semi-monthly report, which was read and
ordered filed. 1t showed that up to De-
cember Is there had been expended by
tbs various departments Of the city S244,-
07S So out OF the total appropriation OF
1911 ,204 &C made to them ct the beginning
of tho year, leaving balance OF 500, 2S6 II,
divided as follows:
Board OF Public Works, 500 ,2l7 05; Fire
| Department, $4,000 rs; Hoalth Depart.
ment, S0l0S0; Markels,$l, O33 90; Police De-
pnrtment, 81, 900 80; City Prison, $sO3 10;
Scales and Weighing, SlG9 50; Real
Estate, 3473 81: Cemeteries, 1852 90; Con-
tingencies, $3.50 "a; Salaries, $6il IS;
City Water Board, SS55l 6S; City Gas
Works, SCI $40 80. The Board Of Public
Works in addition to expanding S26. 974 70
ont OF its appropriation of S49, l02 81
has expended ST. .4S5 45 out Of lis TON
tingent fund and Sc, 724 81 from Its 1O.cent
levy fund. 1. s
Tho routine reports were then taken up
and rushed through in business.like
way. Under Col. Caldwell's rulings no
time was loat. FL
The various committees and boards pre-
ssnted bills aggregating the following
amounts which vera ordered paid Commit
tee on City P'ison SlO4 rs; Scales. Sl4S 80;
Markets, $40; Real Estate, $ll2 So; Ac-
counts, Sl20; Board OF Police and Fire
Commissiouesrs-on account OF Police,
$S3 %, of which amount Chief Smith
gets $46 for killing 46 dogs in the past
seven months and $23 for calling Council
and committees; on account OF Fire d.
apartment $500 50; Board Of Public Works
I-out OF 10 cent levy fund for P. J. Gill
lisan for curbins on InLianaatreet, Island,
$453 10. The Board of Police and Fire
Commissioners was authorized to expend
Isl ,0O0for hose whenever the amount re.
Gently ordered ia delivered. i
The Committee on Accounts reported
having examined the books Of City Clerk
Bowers and Receiver Dunaway and found
them to balance, and cancelled all youch-
er5. The BALANCED wers 0s follows No.
vember 81: General Fund to balance,
lS6.09i 50; Contingent Fund OF 3. P. W.,
| 81 ,S3S IS; Ten.cent levy fund Of B. P. W.,
- .922 II; Appropriation fund, B. P. W.,
81. This report was ordered filed.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
| John J. Kenney's license to keep a ga
loon at No. FOL Market street was annull.
ed and license granted to John Fl. Fsndt
to Keep the Same place, he giving as his
|snreties William Fasnscht and Charles
HorBtmann.
The Board of Equalization and Appealo
reported having had second meeting,
and recommended that reductions be
made on real estate to the amount OF
s., 900, and on personal property to tho
amount OF S7,745 as set forth in the state
ment accompanying the report, and that
rebates be allowed on valuations amount
ing TO S44 GS6 Is. The report and recom.
mendations we're adopted. .r D.,
The Committee on Health asked to be
authorised to effect compromise with
the Pittsburgh Bridge Company for the
iron shed erected over the crematory about
which there has been go much trouble
and discuesion, and tho necessary author.
Iity WAS granted.
A number Of resolutions providing
| for lamp poats were referred to the Gas
Trustees and other minor resolutions
were appropriately referred. A petition
signed by about 800 persons asking for q
new board walk and four oil Tampa on
ITwenty-ninth. street and portion OF
the way up Caldwsll's Run, was referred
to the Board OF Public Works and Gas
Truateea jointly. Unless the present walk
in that locality is repaired some one will
break a limb in passing along there come
dark night and then suit ior damages
againat the city will probably follow.
| THE RAILROAD ORDINANCE.
| The ordinance providing for the public
safety by compelling the erection OF gates
at certain railroad crossings and regulating
the speed OF trains, was taken up and
finally passed. By its terms tbs Balti-
more & Ohio road mus. erect and keep
manned at all times, gates Of pattern to
DO approved by the Board Of Public
Works, at Main, Market and Chaplins
streets where they intersect with Six.
teenth; at Eotf and Jacob, where they in
tersect with Seventeenth; at Thirty-aIth,
| Thirty.aixth and Thirty-seventh, where
they intorsecs with Mcuolloch, and at
Twenty:iourth and Water strests. The
Pn W. / Ky must alec erect
a gate at Twenty.ioursh and Water
streets, or 1t and tho Baltimore & Ohio
may pool their Issues and erect gate at
that point jointly that ehall guard all the
tracks. On tho Pittsburgh, Wheeling &
Kentucky track, north Of, the creek and
in the city limits, no train is to be run